<p>I was wondering what the job outlook was for the engineering majors in general. I looked in government websites, and it showed low percentages, but I heard from people that engineers are in high demand. Are they really in high demand?</p>
<p>Also, what is the outlook for engineers nationally, and also specifically in NYC?</p>
<p>It’s a fairly stable set of professions and a lot of engineering jobs follow a boom and bust cycle. Beware of fields with oversaturation though.</p>
<p>What do you think is oversaturated or will become oversaturated within the next 10-20 years?</p>
<p>I’m looking to do something in either engineering or obtaining an applied mathematics degree and then go into statistics or more specifically biostatistics.</p>
<p>BME is likely, Petrol is possible, and my wild guess is that EECS is going to top off soon.
CivE is probably the most affected by the state of the economy.</p>
<p>They all seem very well in job outlooks. (I’m a 2nd year Mech.E major)</p>
<p>Except maybe Petroleum. Once the oil runs out, or we go green, PetroE’s might be screwed.</p>
<p>A field I’m sure will boom will be Material science/eng. With all the graphene, carbon nano, transparent talk going around.</p>
<p>There’s still a career’s worth of petro around, and we’re still going to use petroleum for a while, even if less of it. It’s still going down though.
As I mentioned earlier, I’m predicting a downturn in EECS in the next 20 years simply because the importance of the high tech electronics industry is going to slow down soon (practical limits and there’s also only so much we can do with it). Electronics and computers will certainly always be important, but the field is probably topping off in 15-20 years. It’s growing a bit too fast to retain sustained value.</p>
<p>how about aerospace? and mechanical?, also industrial?
and how about the job out look for engineers in NYC, or around the tri-state area?</p>
<p>Go to careerbuilder.com put in your zip and engineer and see which types of engineer come up. That will tell you who the major employers in your area are. Beware of the tiny little companies that constantly advertise because they have high turn over because people quit that same horrible job every six months or they never actually hire but are constantly on the lookout for someone with a PhD willing to work for peanuts. That is the danger of using the job boards. Don’t get the idea that those jobs count. Only count the big companies, not the little ones.</p>
<p>In NYC, there tends to be more electrical / computer engineers and civil engineers. There’s quite a bit of programming, IT work, etc (not really familiar with it) and I know a lot of the finance firms have positions for those. </p>
<p>I’m not a civil engineer, but do work in the construction field in NYC and our company has hired approximately 20 people this calendar year. Our firms has somewhere between 200 and 300 people in the NYC office. This is down from a high of approximately 700 in 2007. I’d say things look like they’re on the way up, at least here locally.</p>
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<p>Numbers don’t lie. I’m going to stick with Petroleum Engineering with a 17% employment growth. I know it’s all about going green; but i’ll gamble. No risk, no reward.</p>